Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,522, Ephraim Dunham, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass
Dunham, Ephraim.
S. 4 3, 5 2 2
CONTENTS

130/0
New York R
Ephraim Durham
of Green Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of New York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 27 th of April 1815.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of July 1819 and sent to Mennon Buell Lexington Heights, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819. $ 82 - 08 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept: 1819 48 - 00
10 mos. 4/31. 4/30.
$ 130 - 08
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Greene County -

Notification sent the 22 d . Feb y 1821, to Dorman Bull, Esq r . Lexington Heights, Greene Co y , N.Y.-

Ephraim Wrenham
Miss line
Col. Nixon
1777 - 3 yrs

of New York Green County ss
On the fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York personally appeared Ephraim Barnham of the Town of Bennington in the County of Green and State of New York aged sixty seven who being by me first duly sworn according to law and on his oath made the following declara- tions in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to pro- vide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war that the said Ephraim Barnham enlisted on or about the first of January in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six near Barton in Captain Joseph Thompson's Company in Colonel Thomas Moxon's Regiment Mass- achusetts Line served in the said Corps for the said term intended and continued time at Morris Tavern New Jersey on or about the 1st of February in the year one thou- -sand seven hundred and seventy seven for the war or three years. In Captain Loogood's Company in Col. John Moxon's Regiment in Brigadier General Thomas Moxon's Brigade Massachusetts Line on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United States until the three years expired when he was discharged at or near West point in the State of New York that he was in the battles of Trenton Monmouth White Plains and many others

John Murchie, that he is, now in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his Country for support and has no other evidence now in his power of his said service shown and evidence before me the day and year aforesaid Munroe Buel
I Munroe Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ephraim Bingham did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing declaration against the Common enemy for the time of nine months for the sum of three years at one time in the Continental Establishment I am also satisfied and that from my own personal knowledge as well as from evidence that he is a very poor man and really stands in the assistance of his Country for support and as now has not the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the history of the appointment of war pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid mentioned act of Congress Munroe Buel
I do further Certify that the said Ephraim Bingham personally appeared before me the said Munroe Buel Judge as aforesaid in the County three days of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and made his declaration and proceedings agreeable to this present declaration on oath before me and I do further Certify that William Van Riper Esquire did cause his deponent that I was then and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York and do further Certify that the said proceedings was transmitted to the board of war and was again returned to me for evidence of his service and I do further Certify that the said Ephraim Bingham made a long in the state of Massachusetts for the testimony of his service that he had from the testimony of Deborah Still and Joseph Burtchell of Berkshire County they swore that they was all the time in the year service with him and well knows that he was in Captain Ingersoll's Company in Colonel Mison's Regiment in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and well knows that he served all that year and believes from him and others that he served and the whole time

And I do further Certify that the Clerk of the County of Berkshire Certified that the Justice before whom the Affidavits were taken were authorized to act by Law and in his under the Seal of the Court and that the witnesses were Men of truth and veracity - And I do further Certify that I then returned the same and sent the same to the Board of War who immediately returned the same to me for the purpose that the witnesses were not interested I procured testimony to this fact and made out my Certificate accordingly and transmitted the same in a Bundle of other proceedings all of which has been retur- -ned to me but the said Ephraim Dunham - I do further Certify that I am still at this time one of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green as aforesaid - To further Certify this to be for Court a statement as my memory will allow of I do further Certify that there was nothing wanting the last time to entitle him to a pension as was stated but my Certificate that the witnesses were not interested December 6. 1819 -
Munroe Powell

State of New York
Green County 5/ Henry Godee of the Town of Pennigton in the County of Green in a state of New York aforesaid and saith that he examined the affidavits of Isaiah Still and Joseph Simham concerning the proceedings of Ephraim Simham who both swore that the said Ephraim Simham enlisted in the three years service in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Nixon Mahonville Penn and that they both were privy of his serving in the same Regiment during the whole of the year one thousand eight hundred and a twenty six
Henry Godee
Sworn and subscribed this 10th day of June 1820 Before me Harrison Root one of the judges of the court at Common Pleas in and for the county of Green State of New York
Ephraim Simham
Messrs Root
Col. Nixon
1777 - 39 yrs

State of New York
Green County 5) On the thirtieth day of January 1821 personally appeared In Open Court being a Court of Record Called the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Green Ephraim Dunham aged sixty eight years resident in the town of Bingen in the County of Green since State aforesaid who being first dully sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows in the Company Commanded by Captain Joseph Thompson in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Thomas Dixon And also in the Company Commanded by Captain Sogood in In Colonel John Dixons Regiment In the Massachusetts line and that the original declaration of the said Ephraim Dunham in order to obtain the provisions of the act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States In the revolutionary war bears date the twenty third day of April In the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen As the best of my knowledge and belief I have not received any Certificate for a pension and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to be rendered I do hereby bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed —
Inventory of property.
I have no real property I have no deed or lease of any real property in my own rights or in right of my wife or in any other way —
Personal property
  One poor old Cow worth $7 00   two pigs worth $2 50   one old pine table worth $1.50 9 90   Six old Chairs $3 00   one old broken stool   one old stool 1 00   one old broken kettle $0 50   Six old knives and forks   Six small plates $0 25 0 75   one old chest $0 25   one old broken kettle $0 25   one old hand saw ax & hatchet worth $1.50 2 00   one old Hammer and drawing knife 0 37   one old bush hook and little adz 0 75   one iron dog one spit fork and rake 0 60   one old bucket two candlesticks one tin Horn 0 62   Six cups and saucers four pint bowls 0 49   Two iron Teapots one small looking glass 0 18   Three pewter plates one old pewter plate 0 37   Two old chairs one pair old Socks 1 50   Two old flat irons 0 37 

  five old Iron Spoons three old worn out mugs  0 30    one old wheel little wheel one sheep bell  3 00    one old arm Chair  0 50    one or two old tubs and pails worn out one old half bushel  0 50     23 74  
This is the total amount of all my property as above stated which is Twenty three dollars and fourteen Cents it is not worth any more
I have no trade or occupation but a day labourer I am an old and infirm man sixty eight years old unable to do but very little of any kind of labour for the support of myself and family I have a wife whose name is Hannah aged sixty eight years who has been confined to her bed for the greatest part of the time for fifteen years past has lately had a fall and broken her arm I have one daughter named Sarah aged twenty who lives with me to help take care of her sickly mother I have no other means or way for my support than what I have above stated and I have been and am now suffering with my family for want of the common necessaries of life and I do really stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support I am a Christian being in Sir does no other in my family but those above named  sworn and declared on the Thirteenth day of January 1821 In Open Court -
W m Van Bergen Clerk
The Court estimate the foregoing property contained in his inventory at twenty three dollars and fourteen Cents Catskill January 30 th 1821
I W m Van Bergen Clerk of the County of Greene State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto attached are true copies from the records of the said Court and do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty three dollars and fourteen Cents the amount of money whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Thirteenth day of January 1821  W m Van Bergen

435 22 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 435 22
Ephraim Dunham P. Rev. 1820
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N+ York (13.070 Massachusetts
Ephraim Dunham
of Green County in the state of Massachusetts  N. York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nyce of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27. of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of July 1819 and sent to M rs Eunice Buel, Esq. Lexington Heights, N. York  Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 4 / 5  3 / 5 12. 09 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819. - 40. 00
$130. 09
This should have been made out for the Revolutionary claim { Act 18th March, 1818. } roll, and there recorded but was not so done, by mis- take. Green County.

5474.
Ephraim Durham, Greene County, N.Y.
private Col. Nixon's regim. Massachusetts, 3 years. 1 st decl n .
23 d April, 1818.
Add l testimony.
14 th December, 1819.
== The depositions proving the applicants' service, not having accompanied the declaration, the papers in this case, are returned for further Evidence.
Munson Buel, judge, Lexington heights, N.Y. rec d . 15. Dec r . 1819.

Pennington Straight, December 4 th 1819
Mr. B. R.
By the last Mail I received a Communication respecting the Application of Mr. Ephraim Burham. I have had the proceedings agreeable to your directions. I will remember that Mr. Burham, proceedings were all correct, Evidence as free as could be and Certified that the Evidence were true of truth and testimony and no shape interested there was nothing wanting at the last time transmitted the proceedings, to entitle him to a recovery but my Certificate that the witnesses were not interested in the Application. I did prove the testimony to this fact and made out my Certificate accordingly and sent the same to your office.
I am respectfully yours [Signature]
Henson Buck

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Berkshire p.
I, Joseph Durham of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire, of the age of sixty eight years, being duly sworn, testify & say that I knew Ephraim Durham, now resident in the Town of Lexington County of Greene & State of New York, that I was well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary war, & that I know him to have served, in the company commanded by Capt. Joseph Thompson, of the regiment commanded by Colonel John Nixon, of the Brigade of General Thomas Nixon of the Massachusetts line, during the whole year 1776. & for the said not.
Joseph Durham
Berkshire p.
I, Josiah Hill of Tyringham in the County of Berk- shire, aged sixty four years, being duly sworn, testify & say, that I knew Ephraim Durham of now resident in the Town of Lexington County of Greene, & State of New York, that I was acquainted with him during the revolutionary war, that I know him to have served in the company commanded by Capt. Joseph Thompson of the regiment commanded by Colonel John Nixon of the Brigade of General Thomas Nixon in the Massachusetts line during the whole of the year 1776 & for the said not.
Josiah Hill

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Berkshire ss. October 28 th 1818.
Personally appeared the within named Joseph Durham, and Jonah Hill, to me well known & made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them submitted. I do further certify that they are both well known to me, and they are men of good character for truth & veracity & credible witnesses.
Before me Augustus Sherill, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss:
I Joseph Woodbridge Clerk of the Superior courts within & for the county of Berkshire do certify & attest that Augustus Sherill is a Justice of the peace within & for the same county duly com- missioned & acting under the authority of this commonwealth that the foregoing is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have here at my hand & affixed the seal of said county the day & year above recited.
Jos. Woodbridge CLK

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September . next, in Boston, at the Br: Bank U. States,
Massachusetts.
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Ephraim Dunham late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

State of Massachusetts
Perkinsville County of Joseph Dunham and Josiah Hill of the Town of Tyringham in the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth do hereby depose and say that they are well acquainted with Ephraim Dunham who has made an application to the board of war for a pension well knowing that the revolutionary war then lived in Massachusetts while now lives in Kingston Green County State of New York well knowing that the said Ephraim Dunham enlisted in the spring of the year 1776 in Captain Joseph Thompson's Company in Colonel Thomas Dixon's Regiment enlisted for one year and continued to serve in the said Corp until the spring of 1777 being once more served further swear that they well know that he again enlisted immediately after in the same spring for three years in Captain Isaac Dyer's Company in Colonel John Dixon's Regiment and in Brigadier Thomas Dixon's Brigade well knowing that he served out the year 1777 in the said Corp and from information which we received from others and always from him we firmly believe he served out the said term of three years we do further swear that we are in no way interested in the said Ephraim Dunham receiving of any pension
and further saith not Joseph Dunham
Berkshire ss. October the 3-1820
of 1820
Sworn and subscribed before me Nathaniel Pratt one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the said County of Berkshire
Nathaniel Pratt
And I do certify that I am acquainted with Joseph Dunham and Josiah Hill who have made oath to the above declaration and believe them to be men of truth and veracity
Nathaniel Pratt

commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire ss.
I Parker L. Hall Clerk pro tempore of the Judicial Courts within & for the County of Berkshire do certify & attest, that Elnathan Pratt Esq. is a Justice of the peace within & for the same County, duly commissioned and acting under the Authority of this Commonwealth and that the foregoing is his Signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County this 5 th day of October A.D. 1820.
Parker L. Hall (Clerk) pro tempore.

Inventory of all the personal property of Ephraim Dumbarn who has made an application to the board of war for a pension
  One poor old Cow $7.00 two pigs worth $2.50 one old pointed table $1.50 $12.90   Six old Chairs $1.50 one old broken pot $0.50 one old broken butter dish $0.50 $2.50   one old broken table $1.50 Six old knives and forks $1.25 six small plates $1.25 $4.00   one old stool $1.25 one old broken butter $1.25 one old hand saw and wedge and ax $3.75   one old hammer and drawing knife $0.37   one old bush hook and little dog $0.75   one iron dog one pot one old chair $0.60   one old Saddle two Candela one old horn $0.62   Six Cups and saucers four pint bowls $0.43   two broken tea pots one small Soaking glass $0.18   three butter plates one old plate $0.37   two old Chairs one pair of old Socks $1.50   two old stockings $0.37   five old iron spoons three old augers worn out $0.30   one old wheel and little wheel one sheep bell $3.00   one old arm Chair $0.50   one or two old tubbs and pails worn out one old half bushel $0.50   $23.14 
That amount in value of the above articles is twenty three dollars and fourteen Cents and no more
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of February 1821 I do hereby certify that the above named Jacob A Van Valkenburgh and Simon Van Valkenburgh of the Town of Lexington in the County of Green and State of New York on their due oath that they have been called upon by Ephraim Dumbarn of said Lexington to apprise his personal property we have done to the best of our knowledge and belief that the above is a true and correct list of all the personal property the said Ephraim now possesses in the world which we have appraised on our oaths as carried out making the whole amount of the same worth twenty three dollars and fourteen Cents and no more we do further swear that we have for many years lived near neighbors to the said Ephraim Dumbarn and know him a very poor honest man possessing no real property of any kind or nature that his wife for many years has most of the time been confined to her bed has lately broken her arm we further say that he really stands in suffering need of the assistance of his Country if any man in life does and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed the 10th day of February 1821 Before me Rankin Hosford a Commissioner of the County of Green State of New York
Jacob A Van Valkenburgh Simon Van Valkenburgh
I do further certify that the above named Jacob A Van Valkenburgh and Simon Van Valkenburgh are persons to me well known to be men of truth and sincerity
Rankin Hosford Jr.

Ephraim
Durham
Not known where to direct this cut: to.
Wilson
Paul Eugene
ENEL
Edinburgh Heights
33
W. H. Schaeffer
Mr. Department, J. B. Halloran

Ephraim
Durham
Not known where he went after 1815.
War Department. I. B. Halloran
FREE
Munson. Brd. Engine Lexington Heights Massachusetts

Hon. John C. Calhoun Esq. 117 Superior Street City Washington

Livingston Heights Jan. 30th Februy 3. 1821 Mr. John C. Calhoun Esq Sir
I have received your returns of the several petitions alluded to in my last letter to you - I have endorsed the proceedings of Ephraim Dinsmore and Charles D. Dinsmore with your return will you make returns by the next mail as Mr Dinsmore's family are really suffering for the want of some assistance from the County or else where
from your Aff
Richard D. Wood for Morrison Burl
Charles Dinsmore's case filed with schedules 14 Feb. 1821.

Ephraim Dunham -
private
Colonel Moxon's Regt. line Mass'ts, 1774 to 1776 & after said from line 1777 to 1780
27 April 1812
He was a private He was a private He was a private He was a private He was a private
The line of service is for 1 year from 1776 -
(not on roll)
Proof is in John Dutton's Reg't - Was there such an officer? Subscribed -

State of New-York
Green County ss
On this 27 th day of April 1818 before me the subscribers one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Green and state of New-York personally appeared Ephraim Dunham of said county aged sixty-seven years who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war. That the said Ephraim Dunham enlisted some time in the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy- six , at the Town of Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a company commanded by Capt. Joseph Thomas in the regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Weeks in the Massachusetts line and continued to serve in said corps until some time in the month of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven when he was honorably discharged from service at Princeton in the state of New Jersey that he enlisted the second time he believes in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven at Princeton aforesaid in the company commanded by Capt. William Douglass in the regiment commanded by Col. John Weeks in the Massachusetts line and continued to serve in said corps until some time in the month of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty when he was honorably discharged from service at a place called Old-Say-Bridge and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services but such as accompany this declaration —
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid — Morrison Buel —
I Morrison Buel one of the judges as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ephraim Dunham did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary of the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress and I do further certify that from the testimony of credible witnesses that I am satisfied that the above named Ephraim Dunham is in indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support — Morrison Buel —
Dated at Lexington Dec 31 st 1818 —
I the said Judge do further certify from testimony before me on oath that the witnesses Ephraim Dunham and Sarah Hill are in no shape directly or indirectly interested and are men of truth and veracity which also appears from and by the Certificate of Augustus Sherrill Esquire to whom the aforesaid Affidavits were taken and made to the proceedings — June 29 th 1819 — Morrison Buel

Mr. Correct California
Rec. 20 Dec: 1890.
Mr. John Calhoun Esq. S.Y. bar
Hastington
Ephraim Dunham

Swington Heights Green County December 12 1820
Hon. John C. Calhoun Esq
Sir
At the request and expense of some of the neighbours of the M c Elvain Burnham I have made a journey for more than one hundred miles into the state of Massachusetts to procure the requisite testimony of the services of Mr. Burnham in the revolutionary war. I have procured the affidavits of two very respectable witnesses, Mr. Josiah Rice and Joseph Burnham their neighbours informed me that they were esteemed men of piety and respectability, they appeared that to me I think your Honor will be fully satisfied with the testimony as strongly fortifies and supports the declaration and oath of the applicant. Mrs. Rice the wife of Mr. Josiah Rice informed me that she will remember that Mr. Elvain Burnham was in their house seven years as was always said by his neighbours and himself she lived at that time in the neighbourhood where he lived and was well acquainted with him and also will remember the year service I was very particular in my enquiries respecting his officers their testimony and others inform me that Captain Seagood went from that country soon after the revolution into the southern states that they had heard many years ago that he was made their lieutenant inform me that the Lieutenant also said that the Ensign many years ago moved down near Boston had not heard of him since there were other persons in that region of country. The year service I was informed was in the establishment I think your Honor will be fully satisfied with evidence of two credible witnesses who swear positively to the year service and as much as ten months of the three years service which they positively know of his service. In the first place Mr. Burnham told his early love to procure testimony to go into Boston state to procure his evidence he is as poor as he can be and a stay in the war let I have sent your Honor William Parkers Certificate agreeable to your instruction the day he appeared before me was on the thirty first day of October 1818 Sir, I state for a Certificate the Certificate makes mention of the Seventh of December will your Honor correct his Certificate I think that it was not my mistake however it might be the proceedings will disclose the fact the applicant pray as early a return as may be consistent with your Honor's pleasure.
from your affec d Benjamin Russell for William D. Russell